Shaw Family History
- Shaw Name Meaning
- English: topographic name for someone who lived by a copse or thicket, Middle English s(c)hage, s(c)hawe (Old English sceaga), or a habitational name from any of the numerous minor places named with this word. The English surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century. Scottish and Irish: adopted as an English form of any of various Gaelic surnames derived from the personal name Sitheach ‘wolf’. Americanized form of some like-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname. Chinese : variant of Shao.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 8,373,807 Historical Documents with Shaw on Ancestry
- 3,099,760 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,947,513 Census and Voter Lists
- 262,011 Military Records
- 211,574 Immigration Records
- 2,852,949 Member Trees
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Number of Shaw families
 6,794 - 13,585  2,265 - 6,793 |
 1 - 2,264  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shaw families
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539 - 1,076 180 - 538 |
1 - 179 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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